Dream offers you reliable income

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DREAM OFFICE REIT $15 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol D.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 51.6 million; Market cap: $774.0 million; Dividend yield: 6.7%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Average; www.dream.ca) sold 138 properties in 2016 as part of a new strategic plan. Due to those sales, in July 2017, it cut its monthly distribution to $0.0833 a unit from $0.125. The annual rate of $1.00 nonetheless yields a high 6.7%. Dream now has 27 office properties, including two under development. The downtown Toronto market supplies 79% of the REIT’s rental revenue and accounts for 82% of the portfolio’s value. Its overall occupancy rate as of September 30, 2022, was 85.7%—that reflects 88.9% for its downtown Toronto properties and 79.7% for its other markets. Partly due to the sale of two properties, Dream’s revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2022, fell 2.2%, to $26.7 million from $27.3 million a year earlier. Cash flow was $19.9 million, down 14.2% from $23.2 million…